Year of publication: 1956
Publisher: Drukkerij Meijer, Wormerveer
Binding: paperback, sewed
Size: 298 x 234 mm
Number of pages: 16
Number of illustrations: 40 black & white photographs
Type of illustrations: street photography; photo reportage
Type of reproduction: offset
Printer: Drukkerij Meijer NV, Wormerveer en Amsterdam
Text: Jan Elburg
Photography: Violette Cornelius
Design: Jurriaan Schrofer
Text: Jan Elburg
Type: Christmas and New Year’s gift
Collection: the Netherlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam
A particularly talented occasional team has composed De letter op straat [The letter in the street] (1956). An experimental text is written by poet/writer Jan Elburg (1919-1992), member of De Vijftigers [The Fiftiers] movement, the documentary photography is by Violette Cornelius (1919- 2000) and the innovative design by Jurriaan Schrofer (1926-1990). This one-off publication counts only 16 pages and is the one photobook that printer Meijer in Wormerveer has self-published as a new year's gift. As counterplay of advertising texts and signage in the streets, photographed by Cornelius as part of modern life in the metropolis, Elburg wrote himself advertising slogans in the form of a game on language and concepts. The text, put in a variety of contemporary fonts and colors, acts as a counterpoint to the photographic visual language, which in style and quality is comparable to that of Walker Evans and Helen Levitt.
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TOELICHTINGToelichting: Volgens idee en lay-out van Jurriaan Schrofer werd verzocht aan Violette Cornelius foto’s van letters op straat te maken die Jan G. Elburg van een tekst voorzag opdat wij - Drukkerij Meijer NV te Wormerveer en Amsterdam - dit drukwerk als hartelijke groet aan u kunnen toesturen bij de viering van kerstmis en nieuwjaar. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
